A request from my friend, Abby. Wooly mammoth at the beach :)

To bloom - to mature into achievement of one's potential (2) : to flourish in youthful beauty, freshness, or excellence b : to shine out, to glow.

I'm familiar with the trend that has been going around for a few years, where people choose a word for the year, a word to be their theme, to guide their year or to help them focus on a particular thing for a year. I've never officially picked one, it just never felt quite right or like the right time.

This year, bloom keeps coming to mind, and that is really what I want. I'm in the place I'm meant to be, and I feel like now I can start really blooming and growing into my potential. With my art, with my health, with my photography, with my love - I feel like I can really start to shine and grow in those areas.

So, 2013 is the year I really bloom :)

This is my daily art from 1/4/13, I just didn't post it till today.

You can have anything you want. You just have to stop waiting for someone to tell you deserve it.

Learning to knit

And a happy new year, from friends big and small

Waiting for spring. Waiting for the day to spread your wings

At the end of the day, tired, after a glass of wine. I didn't want to go to bed without making art, not when I've challenged myself to make art every day.

Fast and loose, flowers in a vase. Very different from my usual watercolor style, which is usually much more deliberate. I want to play around with how I do art, and this seemed like a quick, easy way to just get some colors on the page